The series that won, What They Know, is about how on-line consumers are tracked on the Internet. For example, Dictionary.com was installing 234 tracking files (including cookies, flash cookies and beacons) on your computer whenever you visited. Most of these files were from third party vendors planning to sell your data. (I say "was installing" because Dictionary.com may have changed their ways after the Wall Street Journal story appeared.)

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As I said on Rod Adam’s blog regarding the concerted political effort to replace reliable nuclear with plants powered by fracked methane: “Also, some sharp investigative reporter needs to follow the money trail that leads from the gas wells to the politicians. They need to be able to track it through the various NGOs, foundations, and PACs that provide for (technically legal) laundering.”